This Charming Man

5.6(11)200230m

Comedy

Lars applies for job training, but his papers are mixed with an immigrant and he's sent instead to Danish class. When he learns that the attractive teacher, Ida, will lose her job if the immigrant isn't in attendance, he decides to go through with the erroneous assignment posing as the other guy. The short film is a comedy of errors, but works in some poignant and scathing observations about xenophobia.

Director

Martin Strange-Hansen

Cast

Martin Buch

Lars Hansen/El Hassan

Camilla Bendix

Ida

Farshad Kholghi

Omid

Martin Hestbæk

Niels

Michel Castenholt

Pelle

Anette Støvelbæk

Receptionist Arbejdsformidlingen

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

1mo ago

6.0

When there’s a mix up at the job centre, “Lars” (Martin Buch) finds himself accidentally given the ID of a Pakistani immigrant to Denmark, and assigned compulsory Danish lessons. Oddly enough, he is already quite fluent in his native language but no amount of calling is going to get him excused from his course. Then he discovers that his school friend “Ida” (Camilla Bendix) - whom he barely rememb...